In 'The Dark Knight', Batman (Christian Bale) faces his most dangerous adversary yet, the Joker (Heath Ledger). Amid a rising tide of crime and corruption, Batman must use every tool at his disposal to save Gotham City from the Joker's reign of terror.
A bank robbery. The Joker’s subordinates kill each other one by one until only the Joker remains. The opening is exactly the film’s philosophy in miniature: chaos as systematic, not random. Nolan shot it on IMAX so the geometry would hit harder.